The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye Five Fairy Stories

**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately.Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and middle eastern settings. The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself, and has inspired the new film Three Thousand Years of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.

ISBN:	9780099521310
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	07 Sep 1995
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Sales rank:	148
Number of pages:	160
Weight:	212g
Height:	199mm
Width:	131mm
Spine width:	19mm

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